 | Iowa. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 878 pages
...therefore, void. "By 'public policy' is intended that principle of the law which holds that no subject can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public, or against the public good, which may be termed the 'policy of the law,' or 'public policy in relation to the administration of... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 1040 pages
...he was apprehended, convicted, and executed. It is well settled that no one can lawfully contract to do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good. Can there be a legal life insurance against the miscarriage of justice? Can contracts be based on the... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 1072 pages
...the public from so holding is certain and substantial, (p. 210.) PUBLIC POLICY is That Principle of Law which holds that no subject or citizen can lawfully do that which has a tendency to b« injurious to the public or against the public good. (p. 211.) DEEDS. — A Condition in a Deed... | |
 | John Cleland Wells, William Pope Duvall Bush, Edward Warren Hines, Frank L. Wells, Findlay Ferguson Bush, Horace C. Brannin, William Cromwell, W. J. Chinn, Walter G. Chapman, R. G. Higdon, Thomas Robert McBeath - Law - 1903 - 1154 pages
...dissenting opinion : No principle of law is better established than that one can not lawfully contract to do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public morals, and the courts have never hesitated, where future illicit intercourse enters into a contract... | |
 | Emerson E. Ballard, Tilghman Ethan Ballard - Real property - 1904 - 948 pages
...Chicago Gas Trust Co., 13o 111. 268 (22 NE Rep. 798; 8 LRA 497; 17 Am. St. Rep. 319), this court said : 'Public policy is that principle of the law which...injurious to the public, or against the public good.' The question, then, in this case to determine, is, does the condition in the deed have a tendency to... | |
 | Thomas Benton Edgington - Monroe doctrine - 1904 - 368 pages
...policy is defined in the text-books as follows: "That principle of the law which holds that no one can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public, or against the public good, may be termed the policy of the law, or public policy in relation to the administration of the law.... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Charles Frederick Remy, George Washington Self, Philip Zoercher, William H. Adams, Mrs. Edward Franklin White, Emma Mary May - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 858 pages
...Intox. Liquors, §45. The "public policy," of the law is that principle which holds that no subject can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public, or against the 11. public good, which may be termed the policy of the law, or public policy, in relation to the administration... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1070 pages
...defined "public policy" as "that principle of the law which holds that no subject can lawfully do 62 LRA that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good, which may be termed the policy of the law, or public policy in relation to the administration of the... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 1010 pages
...for themselves, and are not bound by decisions of stale courts. Public policy is that principle of law which holds that no subject or citizen can lawfully...injurious to the public, or against the public good. People v. Chicago Gas Trust Co. 130 111. 268, 8 LRA 497; Craft v. ЫсСолош/пу, 79 111. 346,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 986 pages
...policy has ever been given orean be found. Speaking generally, the principle which holds (bat no one can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to tbe public, or against tbe public good, may be termed the policy of the law or public policy in relation... | |
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It is perhaps correct .to say that public policy is that principle of law which holds that no person can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good... 
